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Weekly Contest #238
*Trigger warning* This story alludes to substance abuse and struggles with mental health. No substance abuse is graphically depicted. No self-harm or violence is depicted. "Dad is..." My brain was unable to process how to finish that sentence. You'd think it would be an easy one, considering the life he'd led up to that point. The ending wasn’t a surprise. We’d been expecting it for years. The most my brain could do was run screaming backwards in time through every catalogued memory of him and picture every story I'd ever heard about his lif...
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